Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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2. Why is this valuable to you?
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1 vote
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Keep an object in place when aligning with another object
In Illustrator if you have two objects selected, and then alt-click one, the object that was alt-clicked will stay in place when you align them together. Having this feature in InDesign would be helpful
1 vote -
Search Function in the Layer's Panel
To add to "Inline search filter for all styles panels and swatches", not just list of styles but list of objects within the layer panel. Like Photoshop's layer search.
I use Photoshop quite a bit and found that the search function within the layers panel very helpful when I have MANY layers and I need to find a certain item (see image below). Well, with InDesign, I might have only one layer but TONS of objects in each. So a search function would be incredibly helpful in finding that object.
5 votes -
Adjust layout won't adjust line weight/thickness
Version: InDesign CC2019
Steps to reproduce: using "Adjust layout"
Expected result: a correct result!
Actual result: adjust layout don't adjust line weight/thickness1 voteHi,
Currently this is AsDesigned. Moving this to feature request category. Do cite suitable use cases why you feel this is importantThanks,
Aman -
Save PDF Export Settings within the InDesign File
I remember CS6 had this feature, and not having it on CC makes exporting PDFs a big hassle.
When I export a PDF from Document A (say with margin and crop marks) then go to document B (which I usually export without margin or crop marks) It still shows me the exact same settings I used on A.It should be file dependent: Some files I always export with margin only, others need crop marks. So at the moment I always have to change it again and again on every document.
Would be nice, if I export a file with…
22 votes -
Enable Hyperlinks to Stay Live in PDFs ... Even After Importation into InDesign
Hi folks
We have figured out a 'work-around' to the problem of maintaining live hyperlinks in PDFs throughout the entire exporting/importing process in InDesign. However, it's purely a bandaid - although it works well. It would be great to have this process built in as a feature. I've attached a PDF with our workflow methodologies for your review.
23 votes -
When printing a postscript file - i.e. file - print - postscript file - filename becomes last saved - it should allow for preserve filename
When printing a postscript file - i.e. file - print - postscript file - filename becomes last saved - it should allow for preserve filename or automatically use the document name
1 vote -
Make smart guides work on the pasteboard
Smart guides are a really helpful feature but they currently do not work on the pasteboard area of a document. I frequently use the pasteboard to create design elements which I then move onto the page. This would be so much easier if we had the same guides functionality across the workspace. There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for smart guides to stop working once you move to the pasteboard.
26 votes -
change idml file icons
In (I believe the 2017) iD update, the file icon used for idml versions of a document became very similar in color and form to the one used for indd files. It causes a lot of confusion during workflow (people editing or supplying idml files instead of indd files). Any chance we can go back to the more obviously bland file icon for idml -- or redesign the existing one so it is easier to spot the difference at a glance? - Thanks!
5 votes -
The KEYBOARD INCREMENTS part of Units and Increments preferences should application level not document level.
I have to go into this panel multiple times a day to change this from 2 to 1.
It should be application level, because it all relates to how much I expect text to move when using keyboard shortcuts. Or at least let me toggle it or override.
I think this is like if my custom keyboard shortcuts were document level and I had to set them back up every time I got a file made by someone else.26 votes -
Create Document Template Based on Current Document
Create an absolutely empty document with settings and styles based on an open document.
Sometimes we need to create a document template based on a ready one. You need to keep all styles, master pages, color sets, etc. At the same time, the working pages should remain empty.
2 votes -
Adding a separate pages or extract pages as individual pages feature.
Working in a newspaper environment, our layout clerk sets up our paper in sections. If our A Section is 12 pages, she sets it up as a 12 page section and dummies the advertisements on the pages. When our editorial staff grabs the pages to do their jobs, they need to be able to work on each page individually, not as one full document. It would be extremely beneficial (without having to "MOVE PAGES" or copy and paste) if our layout clerk could separate or export the document as individual indesign pages. Our layout and editorial departments are currently transitioning…
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1 vote
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Make 'Character Style' have bullet options
It would be useful to be able to define bullets as part of a character style, rather than a separate paragraph style.
Often, bullet paragraphs only differ from the body text by the addition of a bullet and the associated indent.
Being able to define bullets as a character attribute, rather than a paragraph style, would allow more flexibility with the new options concerning consecutive paragraphs of the same style (borders, spacing).
If I have a paragraph of text and then a couple of paragraphs of bullets, but the bullets were defined by a character style I could have a…
10 votes -
Changes to the Interactive>Tab Order dialog
I do many interactive forms with hundreds of fields, and use InDesign for most of its creation, as it's easier for me to create customized filed names. It's just very difficult to rearrange tab order with the inability to see more of the interactive names and needing to scroll up/down in such a small area.
I would like to see this dialog more like many of the regular windows (layers, paragraph styles, etc.). Perhaps also a way to link right to where the field is in the document (like the links window).
Would make this task MUCH easier.
2 votes -
ID - Preflight Navigation
Hey there,
i wish i could navigate in my preflight window with arrow keys.
It's important to check all the "mistakes" fast.
Kind regards and big thanks!
7 votes -
Accessibility-Tag Tree-Data Merge
ID 14.0.1, Mac Pro, Sierra 10.12.6
Tags are not in proper order in exported PDF
Using Data Merge to create many pages of text and table from large Excel file Col A-FF. Each row produces one page. The first section of the page tags are at the top of the tag tree, followed by the first section of each successive page. Then the Next tags (from the tables) are listed, again by successive pages.
To remediate, all (table) tags have to be moved to the proper page.1 vote -
Allow a character style to be a percent of the paragraph it's in
For example, I have a style at 12 points for a paragraph and need to place in it a couple of glyphs from a different font, but at 11 points. If I could say character style X is 96% of paragraph style Y, that would be great.
To my fortune every instance of my "different" 11 font has been surrounded by the same 12 paragraph, but if I had to use this elsewhere at a different size, I'd have to have another character style for that new size.
1 vote -
Want to check if Adobe has been 'hacked' because I've received an unusual email supposedly from an Adobe ID Product Manager
After sitting in the phone cue for an hour because there are no appropriate option choices for 'contact Adobe about suspicious emails asking for detailed questions about my account'. I thought I'd post it here because the email claims to have links to the InDesign team. Email content raises a number of security flags which require IT in my company to check it out and as I am IT, I tried - but if you can't get through to anyone at Adobe and there's nowhere to deal with security issues in the 'contact' section of Adobe, then guess I will…
1 vote -
Option to open or otherwise import/place Microsoft Publisher files directly.
As a commercial printer, we often receive customer created work in Publisher files. Working with these documents in InDesign would be a huge timesaver.
14 votes
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